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How to Join Virtual Worship Services
You can participate in all of our services via Zoom or YouTube. The links to join are always on the webpage at Faithec.org or you can use the links below.
You can also watch the recorded service at another time via the YouTube link.
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Pastoral Reflection
In our reading from the Gospel tomorrow, I hope you’ll hear the echoes of racial reconciliation as the Good News of Jesus expansively includes those of different ancestries, heritages, and backgrounds. I hope you’ll hear Jesus’s condemnation of the ways of degradation and corruption. The death that Jesus suffered was meant to humiliate the victim, but John uses the language of being “lifted up” to subvert its purpose. In a great twist of divine humor, Jesus undergoing this form of execution brings not scorn but glory, accomplishes not humiliation but healing, and does not foreshadow downfall but ascension.
My friends, we live in a world beset with starvation and hunger, racism and hate crimes, desperation and hopelessness. As we walk in the ways of generosity and service, in ongoing learning and empathy, in keeping lit the lamps of hope, we walk toward the new life Christ is bringing us into. Lift your eyes and see.
In faith and hope,
Rev. Tom+
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Giving
Thank you for your financial support. You can donate online using the link below or mail a donation:
Faith Episcopal Church
PO Box 966
Shingle Springs, CA 95682
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Coffee Hour
Tomorrow’s coffee hour will include a special Zoom visit from Padre Francisco, our ministry partner in Honduras. You’ll have a chance to hear about the ministry he’s doing, the value of our support, and ask a question or two before our usual time of connection. See you there!
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Palms Pickup
Get your palms in time for our Palm Sunday service!
Stop by the church next Saturday, March 27, anytime between 10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m.
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Mission Team
Easter Outreach
Faith Episcopal Church has a long history of Easter donations with local and international mission. This year our international mission will be the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf in Jordan.
In addition to community clinics and outreach to children with disabilities living in Syrian refugee camps, the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf (HLID) offers therapeutic services for hearing-impaired, deaf, and deaf-blind students, a K-12 academic program, and vocational training programs. In supporting HLID, we’re joining with the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and its network of other supporters in a 30-year practice of serving children with disabilities, irrespective of religion, ethnicity, or ability to pay. For more information about this important, please visit https://afedj.org/easter/
Our local mission will provide much-needed technological pieces at the Center at St. Matthew’s in the Arden Arcade area. Details about this will be shared by CeeCee Coleman in our service tomorrow.
Your generosity is a source of comfort and strength to those who need it most. We have a wonderful opportunity to reach out to our deaf and blind neighbors in Jerusalem, as well as to our hungry neighbors here at home.
Your Missions Team
You can donate via Realm online giving or by mailing a check to the PO Box. Please use "Holiday Giving" when giving via Realm or in the note section of your check.
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Easter Flowers
We’re now collecting offerings for Easter flowers. If you would like to honor or remember someone during the Easter service, use Realm to submit your request. The list of remembrances will be included in the slides during our Easter service. Flowers can be picked up following the in-person service on April 11. A $20 donation is suggested.
Click here to register for a flower donation/remembrance
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Holy Week Services
Once again, Holy Week looks a little different. Three notable changes you may notice are the Tenebrae-themed Evening Prayer service, a family-friendly Stations of the Cross service on Good Friday, and a Great Vigil service that will leave us in suspense as we wait for Easter morning. You can read more here.
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Church Directory, Giving, and More!
Realm is not just a Directory – it is a database, it is where you register for events, it is where you can track your financial giving or just give, it is a privacy tool that you have complete control of. You can change your own photo, change your address, change your phone number, etc. Note – if you enter your birthday it only shows the month and the date – never the year.
We are slowly introducing our church community to the features of this new system. The directory is the latest addition and below is a link that provides information on how to access the Directory – or Group - as the app calls it. Have fun and be sure to reach out with questions to [email protected].
Click here for detailed instructions on using Realm.
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Easter Outreach Opportunity
Easter Baskets and Diapers Needed
If you are interested in donating diapers or an Easter Basket, please contact Monica Ness to arrange a time to drop-off donations, [email protected], Please contact Tassi Burton if you need your donation picked-up, [email protected]. Donations need to be received by Friday, March 26.
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Zoom Video Tutorials
Need help learning how to use Zoom? Even if you have used it for a while, these tutorials can improve your experience. Click the link to see all the options.
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